Category: Non-Fiction
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The Wager by David Grann: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2023 Synopsis: On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel…
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All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1972 Synopsis: In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as…
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The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2018 Synopsis: In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately…
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How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2023 Synopsis: Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their…
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You Are My Sunshine by Sean Dietrich: Content Warnings
Publication Date: October 2022 Synopsis: It was only a few years after the starry-eyed young couple got married when scary news threatened to take the wind out of their sails. But Sean Dietrich’s wife, Jamie, wouldn’t let it. She dared to hope for and plan for a great big adventure,…
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South…
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Mommy Needs A Minute: From Burnout to Empowerment by Alyssa Brade: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Do you feel overwhelmed by societal pressures, by the expectations, judgment, and guilt of being a modern-day mom? Are you desperate to find a way out of the perpetual burnout cycle? Mommy Needs a Minute examines the struggles of millennial motherhood with a focus on this generation’s unique needs, offering…
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I’ll Push You by Patrick Gray; Justin Skeesuck: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Friendship takes on new meaning in this true story of Justin and Patrick, born less than two days apart in the same hospital. Best friends their whole lives, they grew up together, went to school together, and were best man in each other’s weddings. When Justin was diagnosed with…
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Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love by Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack Jr.: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Born into slavery in 1854, Nat Love, also known as Deadwood Dick, grew up to become the most famous African American cowboy in the Old West. A contemporary and acquaintance of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, Nat was widely known as an expert roper and driver, a crack…
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In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be “completely free,” she had to confront the truth of her past. It is…
